content in iframe, what's the best format?

iframe, content, free

[marcob]

My first post here.

I want to give my content away for free in iframes that users can plug into their own website.

I would give the users different options for the frame size.

What would be best frame size options? Are there any standards on this? E.g IAB format?

[ZydoSEO]

Have you looked into what will happen if you get enough backlinks for your iframe to rank? Have you ever clicked on a frame that is indexed at Google and followed the link? I haven't checked recently because I general advocate that developers avoid iframes and AJAX on pages I am trying to get ranked. But when old style frames were popular, if you clicked on a link to go to an indexed frame, ONLY the frame itself appeared. All of the other stuff (like your global navigation, left navigation, footer, etc.) that lived outside of the indexed frame would be missing. In otherwords, you were sent to a page that had no navigation - dead end - bad user experience.

I'm looking at creating a widget similar to this soon. We will be likely using a webservice to implement this. They will be able to call a method on the webservice to render the widget. This method will return HTML that the caller can simply insert into their page's HTML to render the widget. The HTML will contain a backlink to our site with one of, say, 2 or 3 keyword phrases that we want the page to rank for based on a registered list of siteids. The webservice will have other methods the site can call to control the behavior of the widget like to calculate something once the original HTML short form is completed and a submit button is pressed on the widget. This method might calculate some result and return HTML that re-renders the widget with the result below it.

As far as standard sizes, I would ask your designers (if you have any) to determine what the most common left rail, body, and right rail sizes are for typical web page templates. I'm sure there are several standards based on which monitor resolution / browser resolution you are targeting with your pages.